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If you are looking for one of the most beautiful places in Westchester County, just head over to Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers! Untermyer Gardens is a 43-acre public garden overlooking the Hudson River. It contains nine different gardens among all its acres. There is a walled garden that takes inspiration from the Indo-Persian gardens of antiquity, a vista that is modeled after a series of descending stairs at the Villa D’Este in Italy, color gardens that are a series of six terraced gardens each planted in a single color, a vegetable garden that was planted for the first time this year, a rhododendron walk that recalls the famous rhododendron collection that formed part of the original gardens, a ruin garden that is located in an old gatehouse that is meant to evoke a feeling of being in a ruined and abandoned house, a temple of love, which is described as a “rocky fantasy capped with a round temple” that also has small waterfalls, a rock and stream garden, and a sundial garden. There ...